Setting up Texture Painting

Support Materials and Textures
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Hi!

I recently bought a graphics tablet and want to try texture painting in Blender but I’ve never used textures or anything so I don’t know how to set everything up so I can paint the UV’s. I’ve tried watching this tutorial- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7ALfRw6I5I but it hasn’t helped as he is using some other blender addon or something from Google summer of code. If you know of any Youtube videos or forums that could help me set up the textures I would greatly appreciate it! Thank you

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Do you know how to UV map / unwrap? If not, you’ll need to learn that before you can texture paint. ( unless you have a model that’s already unwrapped ).

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Yeah, I’ve UV unwrapped my model

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My question is basically that I want to be able to texture paint on both my model and on my UV’s. I need help with the setting up of textures, it’s kind of hard to explain

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A little how to ( using Blender 2.72b )

  • You have your mesh in Edit Mode that you unwrapped and have the UV displayed in the UV/Image Editor

  • In the UV/Image Editor either load a texture with Open in case you want to paint on an existing texture or click New to create a new texture to paint on

  • Once the texture assigned to the UV
    http://i.imgur.com/iD9nUgN.jpg

  • Go to Texture Paint Mode, You’ll notice the model is full white.
    Click on the “Slots” tab and make sure the Painting Mode is set to “Image”
    http://i.imgur.com/YfkAwHA.jpg

  • In the Canvas Image , click on the little drop down menu and select the new texture you assigned in the UV/Image editor
    http://i.imgur.com/uTjpAqS.jpg

  • As a result you’ll see it applied to your model in the 3D View
    http://i.imgur.com/Iq5ygjo.jpg

  • You can go to the Tools tab and start painting, if you have kept the UV/Image editor open you’ll see the change in real time there too
    http://i.imgur.com/G89NuY1.jpg

  • it’s possible to paint in the UV/Image editor too, by changing the editing context from the default “View” into “Paint” :
    http://i.imgur.com/lDRbKbV.jpg

  • the press T to make the painting tools panel come in the Image/UV editor, then paint , the changes will be reported to your 3D view in real time too
    http://i.imgur.com/eonZB0u.jpg

Remember when you’re finished to go in the UV/Image Editor click on Image -> Save As Image and save it into whatever image format (jpg, png, etc…) you need, as if you close Blender without saving the image manually first, you’ll lose all your work on it !

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Thanks, so much for the help, this will really help. I was amazed when I saw how much effort you had put into this!